A few weeks ago the Korg Opsix I bought last year finally showed up and it's a fine, fine instrument. It's also quite complicated so I decided to use it to make a bunch of tracks so I could learn its ins and outs. tbh I feel like I've still only scratched the surface. I took the opportunity to do a thing I've been wanting to do for a while, which is to make a bunch of stuff in the style of early Detroit techno - Derrick May in particular, with the caveat that I know he's not a particularly great human being. Anyway, so even though there's a lot of stuff here most of them are quite short and minimal. I used the Softube T-SAR as a send for the drums to get that late 80s/early 90s bright reverb sound and mixed it using Strings of Life as a reference track so that gives you some kind of idea of where it's coming from. I used Bassline Generator for a lot of the basslines, and Beat Map for drum programming, particularly in the later tracks - something I don't normally do but also something I've wanted to try out for a while - Bassline Generator turns out to be great for housey basslines so that's something I'll keep in mind for the future.
The cover photo is the intersection of Karangahape Road and Ponsonby Road in central Auckland. Karangahape Road is kind of gentrified now but it used to be the red light district up there, hence the amusing smutty joke.
I was discussing the mixes with someone — ah it was a great great dream 
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